Episode 19: Hehe, Poison Dart Launch

Star Cluster Society, but really a gathering place for uncivilized otherworlders who discriminate against transmigrators.

I looked at her, wondering if I had heard correctly.

But regardless of my reaction, Barbieyen had the face of someone who had stated the obvious.

In reality, Sisiroka had not achieved great success as a Holy Magic user.

Because her body was naturally weak, no matter how much she tried to study Holy Magic, she would collapse first.

Of course, she wouldn’t have participated in the Star Cluster Society.

If it were Sisiroka, she would have studied more instead of participating in something like this.

Rumors spread fast.

Everyone must have known that Sisiroka, who didn’t show her face, was below their standards.

“Ah, by the way, Harua-nim, may I give you a piece of advice?”

Barbieyen smiled sweetly, as if she thought she had become close to me after our little conversation.

It was the smile of a noble young lady whose head was full of flowers.

An elite who had grown up sheltered, without experiencing the hardships of the world.

In a position where she didn’t need to choose her words carefully.

I could feel that she was a woman who had lived that kind of life.

“It’s better if you don’t associate too much with Aransel-nim.”

Barbieyen’s eyes were sincere.

This time, Aransel was mentioned out of the blue.

Is she planning to criticize everyone I’m involved with?

“Aransel doesn’t like transmigrators. The fact that she pretends not to is even more malicious.

Harua-nim will get into trouble if you stay by her side.”

I already knew that.

However, to others, it seemed strange that a transmigrator was by Aransel’s side.

“Many transmigrators have had their hearts broken because they were deceived by her face.

Harua-nim deserves to be with someone more outstanding than a discriminatory person like Aransel-nim.”

I could feel that she openly disliked Aransel.

It seemed that Aransel and she weren’t on good terms.

“Well, she grew up without parents, so she’s bound to have some shortcomings.”

Barbieyen Asteria.

Her appearance was reminiscent of a bleeding heart flower, a red heart-shaped bloom.

However, just as the bleeding heart flower has poison, Barbieyen had a very potent poison.

The poison of being a goddamn bitch.

“What did you just say?”

I asked again.

“Hmm, are you hard of hearing?”

Too bright, you bitch.

A bee flying around in a flower garden.

The bee is revealing its poison dart.

Daringly, she wielded her poison dart recklessly without thinking.

In that case, she couldn’t complain even if an omnipotent human pulled out the poison dart.

It would be third-rate to rashly point fingers and shout here.

“Yes, I’m not familiar with the otherworld language.”

“Oh my, I thought all transmigrators had translation abilities.”

“Then, I guess your sentence structure skills are so poor that the translation ability doesn’t work properly.”

“……Excuse me?”

I dug into my ear with my middle finger as if I couldn’t hear well.

“My translation ability is only half-baked. Especially, in the case of people with bad pronunciation, I can’t understand them at all.

Ah, do you perhaps have a short tongue or bad pronunciation?”

Actually, I don’t know anything about pronunciation.

It’s just that everything is roughly translated and I can hear it.

What I’m doing now is just messing with her.

So, I pulled out my middle finger from my ear, checked it, and showed it to her.

“Fortunately, there’s no earwax. How is it? It looks very clean.”

When I held out my middle finger to her face, her eyes narrowed.

Originally, the middle finger is not an insult in this other world.

However, with so many transmigrators coming over.

Insults spread the fastest.

Barbieyen’s hand swung towards me.

“How dare you be so dirty!”

The moment her hand struck mine.

I flew away.

I literally flew into the sky.

Kudangtang!

I rolled across the floor, smashing the table set with food.

Food spilled around, creating a mess, and the sound of plates breaking echoed.

The venue became silent in an instant.

In the quiet space, everyone’s eyes alternated between me and Barbieyen.

“Wh-what.”

Barbieyen stammered, looking like she didn’t understand the situation.

She had only lightly tapped my hand.

There was no particular force in it.

Therefore, it must be a bewildering sight for a person to fly away like this.

Of course.

Flying away was entirely my own choice.

“Aigo, eugh, eugh.”

In the quiet space, my groaning echoed.

My clothes were covered in food, and blood dripped from my head.

“Harua!”

Aransel, who had been talking with her disciples, shouted and ran over.

She hurriedly cleared the dishes around me and supported me.

“……What are you doing?”

And whispered so that only I could hear.

How quick-witted.

Aransel noticed that I was putting on a show.

It seems she noticed my personality after spending some time together.

I’m grateful that she didn’t deliberately intervene.

The children are buzzing.

Among them, the most embarrassed was Barbieyen.

“Aigo, you’re going to kill someone. Is it okay to hit someone like this?”

Barbieyen flinched at my question as blood dripped from my forehead.

Then, her face turned bright red.

Even if her head is a flower garden, she’s not stupid.

She must have realized that she had been tricked.

“I didn’t hit you! Where are you lying?”

“Oh, then why did I fly away on my own?”

Barbieyen’s face hardened.

Well, she can’t explain the reason.

Degrading Aransel was a conversation between me and Barbieyen.

So, she can just deny it.

However, if she explains the reason here, she becomes someone who openly degraded Aransel.

There are many otherworlders here who feel favorably towards Aransel.

If she did that, Barbieyen would incur their animosity instead.

Barbieyen cannot say the reason.

Only I can speak here.

“Keueu, I think my arm is broken from how hard you hit me.”

“Th-that can’t be!”

“Am I lying? Barbieyen-nim, please check it yourself.”

I held out my arm that I was covering.

Go ahead and touch it.

I’ll cry like I’m dying.

I can’t cry for others, but I’m a man who can cry for myself anytime.

Barbieyen noticed that, so she couldn’t touch me even more.

If I cry here like I’m dying, she becomes the woman who touched my already painful arm.

“Ah, even so, there’s no way you would fly away like that.”

“Because I’m an apprentice Holy Magic user.”

I can say with certainty that the weakest in the world is an apprentice Holy Magic user.

An apprentice magician can burn down an entire house.

However, an apprentice Holy Magic user can’t even recover after being beaten by a common thug.

That’s what an apprentice Holy Magic user is, and that’s me.

My unusually pale skin further revealed my frailty.

Barbieyen suddenly became the person who had struck a weak apprentice Holy Magic user with all her might.

“Barbieyen-nim, I’m so sad that you hate me so much just because I’m a transmigrator. I really wanted to be friends with Barbieyen-nim.”

And I planted the image of her being a transmigrator discriminator.

“Th-there’s no way I would do such discriminatory things!”

“But I was hit by Barbieyen-nim and flew away.”

Barbieyen’s lips moved.

The disciples’ gazes turned to Barbieyen.

They are people who care about their image as elite offspring.

Even if they discriminate against transmigrators, they can’t openly discriminate.

They have to discriminate elegantly from behind.

So, none of them came forward for Barbieyen.

It’s a loss if they get tied up together and get criticized.

Thanks to that, I realize once again that this is a thoroughly self-serving group.

“It hurts. I can’t stand any longer. Aransel, please take me to the hospital.”

“Okay.”

Aransel cooperated with me without complaint.

Barbieyen couldn’t say anything until I left.

She just stood there, trembling.

This is the price for revealing her poison dart to me, who survived in a country full of scammers.

Flower garden head.

Remember well that you shouldn’t carelessly show your poison dart in the future.

“So, are you going to the hospital?”

Aransel asked as she supported me out.

“Why would I? I’m a Holy Magic user.”

Honestly, the blood on my head was also a variable for me.

Maybe it’s because I recently died from my head exploding.

I didn’t hesitate as much as I thought when throwing myself.

But that doesn’t mean I need to go to the hospital.

“I want to get compensation for the injury. But there’s no such law in Gladion.”

There are not many cases where people are compensated with money for causing bodily harm.

Especially in the case of nobles.

That’s only possible in a world where democracy prevails.

Of course, because it’s that kind of society, there are many cases where they kill the other person or immediately execute them if they cause harm.

Anyway, this other world is uncivilized.

“But I definitely ruined her image.”

“Barbieyen is from the Asteria baronet family. Even this incident will die down quickly.”

“I don’t care about that. More than anything, she will feel that way.”

The purpose of my actions was to hurt her feelings.

There is nothing but pure malice in it.

“Why did you do that? Harua isn’t someone who does this without a reason.”

Aransel asked as I was healing my forehead with Holy Magic.

I wonder if there’s a need for Aransel to feel bad by hearing this.

Looking at Aransel’s eyes, it seems she’s determined to hear it no matter what.

“Because she degraded Sisiroka and you too, Aransel.”

“Haa.”

A sigh flowed from Aransel’s mouth.

“I’m sorry. It’s probably because of me that Barbieyen picked on Harua.”

“Because of you?”

“That kid hates me.”

“It seems like something happened.”

Aransel pressed her cheek with her hand and sighed.

“I don’t know either. She hated me from the moment she first saw me.”

Aransel pretends not to, but she was telling me the reason.

At the same time, she glanced at me and slightly raised the corners of her lips.

Such a cunning little girl.

Barbieyen seemed to have a high pride in her appearance.

From the expensive accessories she wore to her clothes and behavior.

Her attitude, clearly full of pride in her appearance, overflowed.

However, Aransel’s appearance surpasses hers even with all that decoration.

To compare it to modern times, Barbieyen is a fairly successful influencer.

However, Aransel has an appearance that stands out even among actors.

That gap cannot be easily filled.

She was pushed back by appearance.

That fact must have been more humiliating to Barbieyen than anything else in the world.

So, she harassed me, a transmigrator, who appeared with Aransel.

“Anyway, Aransel, you’re not an ordinary person either.”

“I’ll tell you in advance, I don’t show it to other people. I hide it instead.”

It’s human psychology to have a dislike for people with strong self-love.

Aransel knew that fact, so she didn’t brag about her appearance to others.

“But I’ve already revealed even more to Harua, so it’s ridiculous to hide it.”

She even revealed that she’s a racist, so it’s even more ridiculous to hide that she’s boasting about her appearance.

“It must be nice to be pretty. What does it feel like to live so prettily?”

“It’s often annoying, but it’s a bit fun now. It’s fun to be pretty.”

Aransel smiled as she brought her face closer.

I realized that a woman who knows she’s pretty is not hateful, but just acknowledged as pretty.

I learned something new.

“More than that, are you going back?”

Aransel pointed to the Star Cluster Society.

Her face was already upset because of Barbieyen’s story.

“More than that, did you hear anything?”

Aransel hesitated at the question.

She rolled her eyes slightly and turned her head.

There’s something.

When I urged her with my eyes, Aransel reluctantly spoke.

“……It’s about the Grace Magic Tower.”

“The Grace Magic Tower?”

“The Gladion Imperial Family is directly investigating the Grace Magic Tower.”

What is this nonsense again?

“Tell me in detail.”

Aransel hesitated to speak, but eventually opened her mouth.

“There’s a rumor that the Grace Magic Tower is related to the Black Dawn.”

Our house is burning.